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Word: paneloux (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pull themselves together. Tarrou organized a group of volunteers to combat the plague. Rambert, on the eve of his escape, chose to remain and fight; he had learned that in such times "it may be shameful to be happy by oneself." Grand abandoned his perfect sentence and Father Paneloux his religious fatalism. It was not a question of heroism; people hardly had enough freedom of choice to be heroic. They simply decided to do what they could, even if their resistance was absurd. And perhaps, suggests Camus, to continue upholding one's human obligations when there seems the least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Community of Death | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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